Definition of brick

brick

adjective

very cold. Usually only used to describe the temperature of a place, e.g. the weather or indoors in a particular location.
It's brick outside today.
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Last edited on Mar 23 1999. Submitted by Meeka B. from Harlem, NY, USA on Mar 23 1999.

noun

an unintelligent person. Derived from "dumb as a brick."
That kid is such a brick!
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Last edited on May 15 2002. Submitted by tim g. from Duluth, MN, USA on May 15 2002.
a basketball shot in which the ball bounces off the backboard and/or hits the rim, but does not go though the net.
He keeps on hitting bricks.
Brick!
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Last edited on Jan 27 2003. Submitted by Fox from Queens, NY, USA on Jan 27 2003.
a large quantity of drugs packaged in a brick shape, especially cocaine.
I'm gonna buy some bricks tonight.
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Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Terry S. from Long Island City, NY, USA on Mar 08 2003.
an external power transformer that provides power from a wall socket to a laptop, wireless router, projector, etc.
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Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
a piece of electronic equipment that has been rendered inoperable. This usually happens when trying to update the firmware or BIOS of the device, when "jail-breaking", installing new cell-phone ROMs, etc.
I tried to run some program I got off the web to turn my phone into a wireless hotspot. Now it's a brick.
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Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
a large cellphone.
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Last edited on Sep 21 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 21 2009.
a reliable person. British slang.
You can always rely on Joe - he's such a brick.

Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 04 2013.
one hundred thousand U.S. Dollars in cash.
It is going to cost me over a brick to afford this Lamborghini.

Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 25 2017.
Someone mentally ill
The patient was described as a brick.

Last edited on Mar 09 2021. Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 09 2021.

noun - uncountable

a long period of time
It's been a brick since I've been to a zoo.

Last edited on Nov 21 2019. Submitted by Anonymous on Nov 21 2019.

verb - ambitransitive

to bail, ditch, let down, not show up, or do something as promised/agreed to.
Yeah, Annie planned the whole thing, but now she's bricking.
Yo, looks like he's gonna brick on the party, but the rest of us are coming.
Yeah, she planned the whole thing, but then she just bricked.

Last edited on Feb 21 2018. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 23 2012.

verb - transitive

to hit with bricks.
James's car got bricked last night.
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Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Key on Mar 21 2006.
to render a (usually portable) electronic device unusable - i.e. as useful as a brick.
I bricked my iPhone trying to jailbreak it.
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Last edited on Aug 04 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 03 2009.

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swole	Definitions include: To be pissed off.
pwd	Definitions include: "password."
rep	Definitions include: to "represent".
grl	Definitions include: "girl".
champ	Definitions include: encouraging form of address, usually of a male.
nuke	Definitions include: to cook something in the microwave.
bang	Definitions include: to have, to take.
cred	Definitions include: "credibility".
doco	Definitions include: shortened form of "documentary".
qual	Definitions include: a qualifying examination.
take an l	Definitions include: "take a loss", i.e. to suffer a loss in a competition.
cover	Definitions include: admission paid to get into a bar, dance club, etc.
whatev'	Definitions include: Short and sassy for "whatever."
psych	Definitions include: said upon fooling someone.
apt	Definitions include: "apartment."
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Other terms relating to 'broken':
whopperjawed	Definitions include: out of place, crooked.
jazzed up	Definitions include: out of sorts, broken, or functioning poorly or improperly; "messed up".
go caput	Definitions include: to break, to fail.
cooked	Definitions include: under the influence of drugs.
bug	Definitions include: to pester or annoy.
give the Heisman	Definitions include: To reject or refuse, often in an abrupt or forceful manner.
moded	Definitions include: messed up, weird.
munted	Definitions include: under the influence of Ecstasy (MDMA).
showstopper	Definitions include: a bug that makes hardware or software unusable.
tweak	Definitions include: to be under the influence of methamphetamine.
key	Definitions include: great.
messed	Definitions include: very inappropriate.
borked	Definitions include: broken or ruined.
Slashdot	Definitions include: to overwhelm a web site with massive amounts of traffic due to Slashdot linking to it.
fried	Definitions include: under the influence of drugs, often LSD ("acid").
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Other terms relating to 'cocaine':
whitney	Definitions include: cocaine.
onion	Definitions include: an ounce of marijuana.
nose candy	Definitions include: cocaine.
yo's	Definitions include: Cocaine, "also yeo, yo-head etc."
Colombian	Definitions include: a strain of marijuana
girl	Definitions include: cocaine.
cola	Definitions include: cocaine.
snuff	Definitions include: kill, murder etc.
Colombian marching powder	Definitions include: cocaine.
yay	Definitions include: an exclamation of happiness.
Peruvian dancing dust	Definitions include: cocaine.
white	Definitions include: cocaine.
powder	Definitions include: cocaine.
eight ball	Definitions include: an eighth of an ounce of cocaine.
snow	Definitions include: cocaine.
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Other terms relating to 'cold':
bitter	Definitions include: abbreviated form of bitterly cold.
baltic	Definitions include: cold.
nippy	Definitions include: fast.
nippley	Definitions include: less common spelling of nipply.
*colder than a well digger's ss**	Definitions include: extremely cold.
freeze balls	Definitions include: A term for expressing extreme cool or cold temperatures.
dumb brick	Definitions include: "dumb brick", i.e. very cold.
a tid bit nipply	Definitions include: of weather, cold, causing nipples to harden.
nipply	Definitions include: of weather or an environment, cold enough to cause nipples to become erect.
colder than a witch's tit	Definitions include: extremely cold.
type brick	Definitions include: cold.
Other terms relating to 'computer slang':
spamvertize	Definitions include: to advertise using spam and "spammy" techniques.
IM	Definitions include: to contact a person via an Internet-based "Instant Messaging" service, such as MSN Instant Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger.
gr8	Definitions include: acronym for "great".
FWIW	Definitions include: acronym for "for what it's worth".
feature creep	Definitions include: the condition where more and more features get added to a system that it becomes difficult to use, requires more computer resources, etc.
ID10T	Definitions include: idiot.
IMO	Definitions include: acronym for "in my opinion".
compooter	Definitions include: a computer that malfunctions frequently.
S/O	Definitions include: acronym for shout-out.
punt	Definitions include: to kick someone off of a network connection.
meatspace	Definitions include: the real world, as opposed to the "virtual" world of computers, also known as cyberspace.
I for one welcome our new 'X' overlords	Definitions include: a comment that usually serves no other purpose above telling listeners (or more often: readers) that the speaker (writer) is in the technological "in group".
bbygrl	Definitions include: "babygirl", i.e. girlfriend.
133t	Definitions include: "elite."
RTM	Definitions include: acronym for "read the manual".
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Other terms relating to 'drugs':
whifty	Definitions include: a marijuana cigarette; "joint".
BC bud	Definitions include: marijuana ("bud") from British Columbia, Canada.
doob	Definitions include: a marijuana cigarette; "joint".
cup of Joe	Definitions include: a cup of Joe, i.e. coffee.
nose candy	Definitions include: cocaine.
dirt weed	Definitions include: low-quality marijuana.
angel tears	Definitions include: the psychedelic drug LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide).
Devil's lettuce, the	Definitions include: marijuana.
herbal refreshment	Definitions include: marijuana.
bobby	Definitions include: a police officer.
green bud	Definitions include: good Marijuana
doja	Definitions include: marijuana.
mota	Definitions include: marijuana.
bone	Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse.
puddle	Definitions include: melted methamphetamine.
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Other terms relating to 'sports (related to)':
gym candy	Definitions include: steroids.
dime	Definitions include: a very attractive person; "a perfect ten".
baller	Definitions include: a person who balls.
pied	Definitions include: high, under the influence of marijuana.
bomb	Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool".
BJJ	Definitions include: acronym for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
deck	Definitions include: to hit.
juiced	Definitions include: excited.
mulligan	Definitions include: in anything, a second chance; "do over".
cow pasture pool	Definitions include: golf.
hang 5	Definitions include: to ride a surf board with 5 of one's toes hanging over the edge of the board.
ball	Definitions include: to be successful.
game-time decision	Definitions include: a decision that will be made close to the time of acting upon that decision.
chuck	Definitions include: to vomit.
gremmie	Definitions include: an inexperienced surfer, regardless of age.
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Other terms relating to 'telephone, phone':
celly	Definitions include: cell phone.
blower	Definitions include: a person or object that erred.
horn	Definitions include: phone.
dog	Definitions include: a friend.
keys	Definitions include: phone number or digits.
buzz	Definitions include: to call on a telephone.
booty call	Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.)
digits	Definitions include: phone number.
blow up	Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)
burner	Definitions include: a handgun.
cell	Definitions include: cell phone.
con call	Definitions include: abbreviated form of "conference call".
tinkle	Definitions include: to urinate.
number	Definitions include: a song.
jack	Definitions include: a five pound note.
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Other terms relating to 'to break, ruin, destroy':
kill	Definitions include: high-grade marijuana.
stove up	Definitions include: stiff, sore.
waste	Definitions include: to destroy.
blow up	Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)
blow to hell	Definitions include: to kill or destroy.
key	Definitions include: great.
barf	Definitions include: to vomit.
fry	Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs.
hork	Definitions include: to steal.
go caput	Definitions include: to break, to fail.
trash	Definitions include: to destroy.
bork	Definitions include: to break or ruin.
*fcked**	Definitions include: ruined.
total	Definitions include: to wreck a vehicle such that repairs would cost more than the value of the (unwrecked) vehicle.
scrog	Definitions include: to have sex.
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Other terms relating to 'unintelligent person, idiot':
eejit	Definitions include: "idiot".
goober	Definitions include: a goofy, silly, or slightly strange person.
div	Definitions include: a stupid person.
*dumb-fck**	Definitions include: a stupid person.
mouth breather	Definitions include: implies someone who is (sometimes) not too bright, unkempt, nerdy.
*dck wad**	Definitions include: a dumb, stupid, lame, or slow person.
nummah	Definitions include: a stupid person.
moran	Definitions include: "moron".
dumb-head	Definitions include: an unintelligent person.
nitwit	Definitions include: a very unintelligent person; "moron"; "imbecile".
stupid	Definitions include: styling.
dimp	Definitions include: someone who is stupid.
Quayle	Definitions include: stupid or dumb.
bird-brain	Definitions include: an unintelligent person.
cool guy McGee	Definitions include: making fun of someone that did something stupid.
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Other terms relating to 'brick':
B & M	Definitions include: acronym for "brick-and-mortar".
brick-and-mortar	Definitions include: a "traditional" business with a physical presence.
brick house	Definitions include: nice rack
*brick shthouse**	Definitions include: a large muscular person.
*brick sht house**	Definitions include: anything solid, sturdy, well-built.
built like a brick house	Definitions include: of a woman, to be well-endowed.
*built like a brick sht-house**	Definitions include: large, muscular, and strongly built.
dumb as a brick	Definitions include: very unintelligent.
dumb brick	Definitions include: "dumb brick", i.e. very cold.
hit the bricks	Definitions include: to leave.
*sht a brick**	Definitions include: Couldn't believe it, or make a big deal.
*sht bricks**	Definitions include: to react with extreme emotion; "freak out".
type brick	Definitions include: cold.